Thanks to the expansion of Medicaid access in NC, I now have medical insurance. I selected WellCare NC as my insurer this year and I am now beginning to take advantage of their available services.

I have been having monthly phone conversations with a Dietician and putting together a plan to improve my overall health while also, hopefully, losing some excess weight. I have been on medication to lower my high cholesterol for about a year now.

The benefit gives me access to the Good Measures program which helps me to track my meals, water intake, weight, and daily fitness goals. I have been logging my meals maybe intermittently. Certainly not as often as I think I should. It will be a good habit to pick up.

I should be getting a free gym membership sometime later this year. I have completed the healthy tasks that were required to qualify for the membership. I just need to wait for my information to percolate through the system and then I should receive some mail with further instructions.

Yesterday, I made a nice salad for breakfast and ended up not being able to finish the whole thing, so I had it for lunch and then again for dinner. I used some salad greens from our garden, packaged sweet peas, and carrots from Food Lion, three colors of bell peppers, and freshly made kimchi from our local Korean grocer (Han Ah Reum).

I will try to put together a recipe list for my healthy meals and post those soon.

Questions or comments put them below, and thanks for reading!